DWITE – the Programming Contest
For a while now, Dan and I wanted to organize our own programming contest. Years of participating in contests, competitions, show-offs and challenging others to do the same, has left us with experience...
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DWITE – Fifth Season
DWITE is an online computer programming contest, aimed as a practice for Canadian secondary school students. Often quoted as “fun”, this contest offers a unique dynamic that is enjoyable, promotes...
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Your Computer Science ISU in 20 lines
The Independent Study Unit (ISU or ISP in some schools) usually involves an independent programming project at the end of the year, to demonstrate what students have learned. More often than not, it...
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DWITE 2006 – now with Ruby
A quick, but exciting update on the DWITE programming contest – it now supports Ruby! Running the current stable 1.8.5 version, it should make the contest much more interesting. Ruby has a very neat...
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Video Game Programming Contest with XNA: Dream Build Play Competition
If anyone needs some extra motivation to work on their dream game, then Dream-Build-Play Competition is it. So far just a teaser, the only published information is that the contest begins in January...
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Imagine Cup Korea ‘07 – Project Hoshimi AI Programming Battle
The fifth year of the Imagine Cup competitions will be holding its finals in Korea this year. Want to receive free travel and accommodations? You’ve got to make it into the finals, and AI Programming...
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Getting ready for the Canadian Computing Competition
The Canadian Computing Competition is coming up in just a couple of weeks — February 26th, to be exact. Whether you just started programming last month or you are a coding prodigy, you should...
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hard code
Hard coding is the practice of embedding a pre-calculated result into a program. Input is disregarded, there are no calculations or logic flow, just unchanging (thus “hard”) output. This shouldn’t...
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DWITE 2008-09 Contest Season
DWITE — an online computer programming contest that Dan and I run has announced another season! A new season of the DWITE programming contest is starting and we have picked the dates for the 5 rounds....
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